Podcast - Starting Stories

On the Starting Stories podcast, entrepreneur Graham Mann interviews top entrepreneurs, creatives, investors and more, to learn about how they got started, and the habits and tools that led to their success, so that you can apply them to your own life.

"Everybody thinks they have to be riding on an airplane and get hit by something across the forehead to realize that something is broken and they are the only individual in soceity that has the right skills and knowledge to go fix it. Most of the time it’s much more, you know, kind of stumbling through the dark, groping and trying to figure out what’s there and stumbling on something." - Austen Allred

This episode’s guest is Austen Allred, CEO and founder of Lambda School. Austen is a serial founder, having started news network Grasswire, as well as a variety of other businesses.

Lambda School, his current venture, is a 30-week immersive training program that teaches students skills to launch a new career, with no tuition up-front, instead taking a percentage of income once students get a job in their new field.

Austen and Lambda School are graduates of Y Combinator, and they just raised a $14M Series A financing round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from Stripe.

I am extremely excited about this episode, as aside from being one of my favourite people to follow on Twitter, I believe Lambda School and models like it are the future of education, and a brilliant alternative to college.

In this episode, we talk about the details of Lambda School, some of their success stories, education in general, rapid improvement, and more.